Editorial: Why would Texas lawmakers give indicted AG Paxton more power?
FILE - In this June 22, 2017 file photo, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks at a news conference in Dallas. As Paxton seeks to fend off legal troubles and win a third term as Texas' top law enforcement official, his agency has come unmoored by disarray behind the scenes, with seasoned lawyers quitting over practices they say aim to slant legal work, reward loyalists and drum out dissent.
America’s most corrupt attorney general, continues his foolish quest for widespread voter fraud, despite fewer incidents of the phenomenon than credible Sasquatch sightings over the years. Elected to a third term last fall, Paxton has been on the hunt for fraudulent voters since he first took office in 2015, despite the fact that countless investigations haveTo call his quest quixotic is an insult to Don Quixote. Unlike Cervantes’ misguided hero, Paxton surely knows the truth.
The two bills are the outgrowth of an impressively independent ruling last fall by the all-Republicandoes not have unilateral authority A few weeks after the Court of Criminal Appeals ruling, a district judge in Montgomery County cited the decision when he dismissed voter fraud charges Paxton had filed against Hervis Rogers. The Harris County resident, who in 2020 waited in line for nearly seven hours at his Texas Southern University polling place, was on parole at the time for a decades-old burglary conviction but under Texas law, wasn't quite eligible to vote again.
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